*A letter from the court came. Read it and turn blue* Erg did I say mine? I mean Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru aren't mine. Definitely not mine.
"Sesshoumaru-sama, is the story finished yet?" said the shrilly, worried voice from the other end of receiver. Sesshoumaru held the phone handle away from his ear when Jaken, his editor started on his frantic blabbering. He should ask to get another editor soon. This idiot already called him for more than five times in ten minutes, asking the same question over and over.
"I will give it tomorrow," Sesshoumaru coldly said. Jaken was still lost in his panicky world. Sesshoumaru just shut the phone and started typing away on his laptop.
And then he started to peeled the restraining cloth from his lover and …
KRING KRING
"Hallo."
"Sesshoumaru-sama, how's the story progress?"
Sesshoumaru just said a colorful and various way of shut up. He put the phone again and set off to work. However before he type more than a sentence, the phone ring again. He picked up the phone and before he said anything, Jaken already blabbered again asking the same question. Sesshoumaru almost throw the phone in anger.
Not longer than two minutes, the phone ringed again. Sesshoumaru growled. He would lose his cool any minute now, if he doesn't care about his dignity and pride, he would start screaming on his editor to leave him alone. He picked up the phone with enough strength to break the handle and said with a restrain voice full with anger and malice.
"The script will be finished tomorrow so just. Shut. Up. And let me do my work." He thrown down the handle ferociously without hearing anything the caller said.
The phone ring again.
"What?!" He said almost yelling.
A familiar gentle voice chided him. "Really, Sesshoumaru. I thought your manner would be better than that. It's impolite to scream at your caller."
Sesshoumaru was startled although his face didn't show any sign of it. "Madam Higurashi, is that you?"
"Yes, Sesshoumaru. I call you to tell that your mother woke up. I'm going to see her now. I hope you can visit her as soon as you can."
"Yes, I will. Tomorrow."
"That's great. See you tomorrow then."
This time Sesshoumaru put the phone calmly. He leaned on the back of his comfy chair, and closed his eyes. He took a deep breath.
'Thank God for saving her.'
KRIIIIIINNGG. The phone once again ringed, breaking Sesshoumaru's peaceful moment. He put the receiver to his ear and was greeted with,
"Sesshoumaru-sama, is the script finished yet?"
Sesshoumaru's thin string of patience broke with a twang.
"JUST SHUT UP YOU FILTHY TOAD!!!"
First KissChapter 7: Truce?
By Lafine
"Hey, no running in the hospital," said an old nurse angrily when Inuyasha dashed beside her, making the tray she held fell. Inuyasha however didn't listen and kept running with the speed of a sprinter. Kagome and Shiori called him to calm down but the words fell on deaf ears.
"That idiot, he could use the lift," said Kagome when she saw Inuyasha was too impatient to wait for the lift and chose the stairs.
"He's only worry about his mother, Kagome. People can be an idiot when it come to their loved person safety." Shiori patted Kagome's back.
'Mom, please be okay.'
Inuyasha arrived on the seventh floor in three minutes and immediately dashed to his mother's room. He opened the door impatiently.
Only to see the doctor and nurses covered his mother with sheet. Inuyasha froze. He could feel his face color drained. 'It can't be. Didn't Mrs. Higurashi said his mother woke up?'
"What the hell are you doing?!" Inuyasha barked at the confused doctor. He reached the doctor in three long strides and held the doctor by his collar. "Didn't she wake up? Why are you covering her?"
"Her? Who?"
"Don't act stupid!!" Inuyasha already raised his fist to punch the frightened doctor. Fortunately for the doctor, Kagome passed the room and saw the ruckus Inuyasha made in the room.
"Inuyasha, what are you doing here?" Kagome asked from the door.
"I'm going to beat this guy, that's what I'm doing," said Inuyasha angrily. "This rotten piece of …"
"I don't know what's angering you, but I think your mother waiting for you. Mom already went to her room." Kagome gestured the next room with her hand.
Blink blink.
"Eh?"
"Your mother's room is next door, Inuyasha."
Inuyasha blushed and released the innocent doctor, mumbling "Sorry." The doctor fixed his crumpled collar and forced a strained smiled. "It's okay. Sometimes people do that. Now go."
"You always came here everyday, how could you forget her room?" Kagome teased the blushing Inuyasha.
"… Shut up."
Inuyasha entered the correct room this time with Kagome towed behind him. He immediately went to his mother's side. She looked dazed and weak, but Inuyasha never saw his mom this lively.
"Mom, you're awake," said Inuyasha happily. He hugged his mother with gentleness that surprised Kagome who was watching the touchy scene from the sidelines beside her mother. Shiori didn't look too happy though.
"Who … who are you?" Sakura asked Inuyasha with complete bewilderment. Her voice hoarse and she looked like using her vocal cord was hurting her a lot. "I'm … your mother?"
Inuyasha felt like he was just electrocuted, twice. He released his hug and held his mother by her shoulder. He looked into his mother eyes with worry and pain. He wanted to shake his mother very badly but he knew that it only would make his mother dizzy. And that's not a good thing to do to someone who just woke up from a month coma.
"What did you say, Mom? Of course you're my mother," Kagome noted the slight tremble in Inuyasha's voice. She already guessed what bothering her mother and the doctor but Inuyasha was in denial. "You KNOW your own son, do you?"
"Inuyasha," Shiori rushed beside him and put a comforting hand on his back. "Let her rest."
"NO. I … I …"
"Inuyasha," Shiori reprimanded him sharply, and then the tone turned to the usual gentle one. "She just woke up. Let her rest."
Inuyasha obeyed this time. He leaved his mother side with heavy heart. The nurses immediately did their order. Shiori, Kagome and Inuyasha followed the doctor, Mr. Nakano to his office. In there he confirmed Kagome's suspicion.
"She got amnesia, Inuyasha. We could only hope it's only temporary."
"For how long, doc?" asked Shiori worriedly.
"Could be a day, a week, month or years. We don't know. For now we will tend to her other injuries because we cannot do anything with the amnesia."
The conversation went on between Nakano and Shiori, mainly over the treatment over Sakura and other things that didn't interest Kagome. She glanced behind her to see Inuyasha was sitting with head bowed and depression was literally emitted by him. Her heart constricted with worry to see the usual cocky Inuyasha was actually sitting quietly in one place. She never thought there would be a day when she preferred the usual annoying Inuyasha than the quiet one.
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Midnight in Higurashi's house. Everything was silent and dark saved the moon's light and occasional cars' sounds. Kagome was in the kitchen. A glass of water was in her hand. She absentmindedly drink it. Her thought was full with Inuyasha. Unlike any other day when her thought would mainly consist on how to annoy/anger/hurt him, this time her thought full with Inuyasha's well being.
They came home in somber mood. Shiori filled Souta and grandpa about the news while Inuyasha went to his room silently and locked himself. He didn't come out since then. He didn't even come out when dinner was served. That worried Kagome a lot.
'That idiot. He could at least be happy his mother woke up.'
But with the way things turned up, it's almost the same, her heart chided her. His mother forgetting him like that, what would YOU do if you were in his situation?
'Well … probably do the same like him' Kagome's brain said that grudgingly. 'But I won't be that depressed.'
Poor, poor Inuyasha. Kagome, you should be nice to him. He is having a rough time nowadays. His apartment burned down, live in a stranger house, and to add his misery his mother got amnesia. That poor kid makes me want to hug and kiss him better.
'…… You know, heart? Just shut up. The way you talk make goose bumps all over my skin.'
Kagome's muse was cut there. She saw someone was sitting on the bench beside Go-shinboku tree when she passed the kitchen's window. A thief? Kagome hid behind the curtain, afraid if the thief saw her and peeked from there.
'Inuyasha?' Kagome thought when she saw the familiar long silvery hair.
Indeed it was Inuyasha. He was sitting there, all melancholic in his dog's paw prints pajama (Shiori bought it for him ^^) and was staring at the moon. The cold wind night blew, freezing his body but it was the last thing that was in his mind.
Mom got amnesia. It's really hard to accepted that. When will she regain her memories? But if she remembers again, especially about father's death, she would devastate again. *sigh* I don't want to see her go through all that again, but I want mom to remember us. Man, I hate this. God must be really hates him. On the other hand maybe it is his punishment for stealing the temple's money to buy chocolate when he was small? Father already spanked him when he knew about that.
Inuyasha sighed. He rubbed his cold hand. Night at spring could be cold sometimes. He snapped his head when he sensed someone coming his way.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha said. "What are you doing?"
Kagome didn't answer. She just thrust the mug she brought with her and smiled. "Hot chocolate with marshmallow. Want some?"
Inuyasha received the mug and was grateful for the warmth. Still he couldn't help but to stare at swirling hot liquid suspiciously. Kagome sat on the bench and sipped her water calmly.
"I didn't put any poison, salt or vinegar in it so you don't have to worry."
"Keh, I'm not worry," said Inuyasha with a huff. Annoyed because Kagome could guess him right. He sipped the cocoa slowly. The sweet, warm liquid eased his anxiety. Comfortable silence fell on those two for the first time. And both enjoyed it.
"The moon is pretty, isn't it?" asked Kagome. She placed her glass beside her and leaned on her hands. Inuyasha just muttered an uninterested "Hmm" before back to his mug.
"Hey, Inuyasha. What kind of café your class prepared? Your friend, Miroku seems to be very proud of it. I want to see it." Inuyasha choked on the marshmallow bits. He wiped his mouth with his pajama's sleeve before gave a glare at Kagome.
"You will NOT come to see us. That's final."
"Oh, okay," said Kagome, shrugging while her heart say 'I will definitely come.'
"That's good." Inuyasha sipped his chocolate again. He already drank half of it and his body felt warm because of it. He took a sideways glance at Kagome. "Er, are your ankle fine? It's not that I care. I just don't want to carry you anymore." He finished it quickly to hide his embarrassment.
Kagome smiled at him, touched by his attention. "It's okay. Mom fixed it, just feels a little sore now."
"That's good, cuz I won't carry you again."
"Yeah, yeah."
The wind blew again. Inuyasha sneezed. While he rubs his nose, Kagome observed him.
"What?" asked Inuyasha, feeling a little annoyed because Kagome's staring became a bit uncomfortable to him.
"No … nothing."
Silence fell again. Kagome fidget in her seat uncomfortably, Inuyasha noticed that.
"Oi go back to the house or you'll catch cold." Then he added hurriedly. "Not that I care."
Kagome didn't notice it since she was thinking on how to cheer Inuyasha. Moreover it was hard for her since she has to consider his feeling unlike the other time. She decided to say it anyway.
"Inuyasha, about your mother … don't worry, okay. Many people got amnesia but they recover, so your mother's memories will also recover. Just give it some time. The doctor said it too. I read a book about it once. It said familiar surroundings and family would help the recovery. And sometimes shock can do too. And …" Kagome stopped her blabbering and blushed beet red. "Sorry, just forget what I said."
"No, no it's okay. Thank you … I guess for cheering me." The last sentence was mumbled quietly. They backed on drinking from their respective glasses.
Small conversations were exchanged between them. Both wondered about how long will the peaceful conversation can carried on since it was the first time they're talking without trying to shot each other off. And they already talked for a good twenty minutes. That alone could enter the Guinness Book of Record.
"Hey."
"Yeah?"
"ImsorryforthetroubleIcaused." Inuyasha said it quickly so it took Kagome some time to understand what he's saying. And when she did, she smiled warmly at the blushing Inuyasha.
"I'm sorry too, Inuyasha." She held up her right hand. "Truce?"
Inuyasha breathed a sigh of relief. It already hurt his ego to apologize to Kagome, thanks to her he didn't have to be the one who offered the peace. He shook Kagome's hand.
"Truce."
They finished their drink in silence after that. Kagome stood up first.
"Well, I'm off to bed now. You better get going too, Inuyasha. Tomorrow we still need to prepare the festival."
"Okay." Inuyasha stood up and brushed his pant to clean it from dust. He followed Kagome into the house, and put the glasses in the sink. They were walking up the stairs when Kagome's foot slipped.
'Man, am I clumsy or what? If I have my own house in the future, it would be a nice, comfortable one-floor apartment. She and the stairs just don't fit.' Kagome thought when she felt she lose her footing. She readied herself for the impact. She didn't scream because she doesn't want to wake her family. However a warm body behind her stopped her fall. Inuyasha instinctively held Kagome's shoulder and upright her. Kagome blushed.
"Thank you, Inuyasha."
"Kagome, you're an accident magnet, ya-no. You should be more careful next time."
Kagome scowled. So much for a nice advice from Inuyasha. It always has insult inside them.
"I thought we're having a truce."
"We are." Inuyasha said.
"Then be nice."
"I'm always like that, woman. Don't push your luck."
Kagome grumbled and turned on her doorknob. Inuyasha was doing the same to his door. Then he grinned. He just has to say it.
"Hey, Kagome."
"What?"
"It's been in my mind since today's afternoon, and I think you need to hear this."
"???"
"You need a diet." Inuyasha quickly entered his room and locked it before a rage storm with the name Kagome could beat him into a pulp. Kagome could only glare hatefully at the door when she heard Inuyasha was laughing inside the room.
'He would never change!'
End of chapter 7
AN: Wai thank you for the reviews ^_____^ Sorry for the long update. Very, very sorry. My final exam is coming and my homework still piling on my desk. That alone discourage whatever mood I have. So like any other author would say, REVIEW okay ^^ Anyone has watch Rahxephon? It's a totally cool anime. It has great story and characters. And Ayato-chan is very, very cuteeeee. So glompable, huggable, kissable, and snugable (well you got the idea). I want that cute boy to be my doll ^0^